In the inn chartered by the Zheng family, Zheng Haonan and Zheng Haoguang were drinking and discussing in a room.

"Big brother, what does my father want to do this time?" Zheng Haonan asked.

"To be honest, I don't know, I don't even know what's in the news you've sent home. After receiving your message, my father immediately summoned the important members of the family to explain briefly, and after hurriedly preparing and then set out on the road. Zheng Haoguang smiled bitterly.

Zheng Haoguang asked his father many times along the way, but Zheng Long always kept silent, so he didn't dare to ask more.

The Zheng family's family rules are stricter than military law, and their children and grandchildren are all afraid of Zheng Long like a tiger.

Zheng Long is a legend in Fuzhou.

He used to be just a fisherman, fishing in the offshore waters for a living, because of his good boat skills, he always went farther than other fishermen, and naturally caught more fish than others.

Once, when he sailed too far and encountered a strong wind and waves, the boat was overturned in the sea, but he drifted to an island with his superb water skills, but he did not expect that this island was actually a pirate base camp.

The pirates were about to kill him, but after talking to him, the pirate leader decided that he was useful in navigating ships and decided to take him into the gang. Zheng Long became a pirate from then on.

Zheng Long not only has good boat skills, but also has enough brains, is a good hand at fishing, and has even more talent for robbing merchant ships. A few years later, Zheng Long actually stood out among pirates, was appreciated by the pirate chieftain, and became a pivotal figure among pirates.

On one occasion, during the robbery of an armed merchant ship, the pirates suffered heavy casualties, the leader died, and the rest were not much left. Zheng Long gathered this group of remnants and continued to rob in the sea, and everyone naturally recognized him as the boss.

After a few years, the number of his pirate gang increased, he not only robbed merchant ships, but also other pirates, and after merging several groups of pirates, he formed a relatively large pirate gang off the coast of Fuzhou.

During the ten years of robbing merchant ships, Zheng Long's mind suddenly opened up, and he felt that blindly robbing was certainly pleasant, but it was not as stable and lucrative as smuggling.

In the years since he started smuggling, he has also been deceived, and once he catches the merchants who have deceived him, he must cut off their heads and hang them on the sails of his own ships. Slowly, he developed a set of smuggling strategies, and the business became more and more popular, and finally he simply handed over the pirate gang to one of his subordinates, and went ashore himself to start smuggling a large number of goods.

Zheng Long returned to his hometown, and in a short period of time, this small fishing village turned into a smuggling den, and gradually expanded, and the pirate gang was not disbanded, and its power became bigger and bigger. It was his idea to recruit those ownerless ronins on the island, and he even robbed a beautiful Japanese woman as his wife, gave birth to Zheng Haoguang, and the other sons were born to his wife after going ashore.

Under his leadership, almost every village in Fuzhou participated in smuggling activities, and many forces were annexed by him, and other forces also looked up to him, and he became the largest smuggling pirate leader in Fuzhou.

Wealth is accumulating at a super rapid pace, and he has amassed a huge fortune in a few decades, becoming the richest man in Fuzhou. The officials of Fuzhou were basically included in his pocket, and those who accepted bribes and shared the fat with him became the officials of his family, and those who had a greater sense of justice either left their jobs voluntarily or died under the scimitars of the Japanese ronin, and these ronins returned to the pirate gang at sea after killing people, and no one could help them.

In the early years of Jiajing, the large-scale invasion of the inland by the Japanese invaded the interior, and the biggest black hand behind it was Zheng Long.

In Hu Zongxian's many battles to quell the Japanese invaders, some pirates commanded by Zheng Long were also exterminated, but Zheng Long did not break his bones, but killed some of his pirates and ronin. These resources are abundant on the small islands of the open sea, and they are not worth much at all, and they are very easy to recruit.

The eight major families along the coast formed a pirate alliance, not to fight against the official army and the imperial court. They didn't care at all about the attacks of the officers and soldiers, as long as there was no loss of property, it was not surprising that some people died. The area where the Eight Great Families are located, like Fuzhou, is firmly controlled by these pirate families.

The main enemy of the Pirate League is the Monarchical Order, because the Monarchical Organization specializes in black and black, and prey on the wealth of pirates, and the pirate gangs of a single family often become their meal. In order to protect their own interests, the eight major families formed a loose alliance, and once they encountered the king's organization, they immediately joined forces, and they still did their own things in peacetime. Intelligence sharing within the Alliance, no matter who determines the whereabouts of the King's Organization, immediately gathers several groups of pirates to hunt down the King's organization's fleet.

Zheng Long was a visionary, he made a fortune from smuggling pirates, but he didn't want to live in a corner. He did not let his sons participate in the family business, but hired the best teachers for them, let them study and learn to take the path of the imperial examination, and then embark on a career in official office. There are really no children and grandchildren who have a reading head, so he will agree to go into business, such as Zheng Haomiao. The more estranged people were assigned by him to be the leaders of a pirate smuggling ring.

Zheng Haoguang also worked as an official, and he was a colleague with Pomegranate's father at that time, but the two were like-minded, and the two families were like a family. Pomegranate's father is more literary than Chen Musa, and he has been in Fuzhou for a short time, and he doesn't know Zheng Haoguang's family background, so he signed the marriage contract with him.

"Honestly, I don't want to be like this. Brother Chen is the younger brother of my friend, and Miss Chen is the daughter of the deceased, so I also have incense, but I don't have the right to speak in this matter, so I can only obey my father's orders. Zheng Haoguang drank a glass of wine and said bitterly.

After he became an official for one term, he returned home to manage the family business, because he was the eldest son, the future patriarch heir, and he had a lot of power in the family, but he had to completely obey Zheng Long's orders in major matters.

In the Zheng family, only Zheng Long is the real head of the family, and there is no alternate candidate.

"Big brother, I'm the same, I originally wanted the family to send the marriage contract over, and then I fulfilled Boyong's wish. As for those mysterious organizations, we can deal with them in other ways, and if we make trouble in Jiangnan, we will definitely suffer. Zheng Haonan felt that things were not at all what he had imagined.

The reason why he started the Wanli Express was because he had to get the marriage contract before the Pomegranate wedding, and the second was to pass some information on the situation to the family, the former was the purpose, and the latter was the reason for starting the Wanli Express. Speaking of which, he is still a bit of a fake public servant.

After the door opened, Zheng Haomiao also quietly slipped in, sat down and drank a glass of wine and said with a wry smile: "If you do this, what will we do in this business in the future?" It was originally a tacit thing, but now it's stiff, and both sides lose. Suzhou is not as good as Fuzhou, not our territory. If you are in Fuzhou, you must listen to us in this matter. If we suffer a loss in Suzhou, our situation will be difficult in the future. ”

"It's useless to say this, let's see how my father has a showdown with them in the end." Zheng Haoguang saw Zheng Haomiao coming in, so he didn't say much.

"Haonan, it's not me talking about you, it's all your troubles, if you didn't make such a scene, could there be such a thing? Boyong likes beautiful women, we can spend money to buy it, I will pay for how much it costs, why do you want to do it like this. Zheng Haomiao was full of complaints.

He is not like Zheng Haonan's brother in Nanjing, he has an official uniform as a talisman, he is just a businessman, if he really angers the Zhongshan Palace, his business in Jiangsu and Zhejiang will not be able to go on at all, so he can only go back to his hometown to engage in smuggling.

"I don't want to do that either, didn't I think of it?" Zheng Haonan also regretted it at this time.

"Big brother, you are the most important to your father, and you are the future patriarch, let's talk to my father, don't get into trouble with the Zhongshan Mansion and the old master, we really can't afford to mess with us, just like the imperial court can't deal with us in Fuzhou, unless the family gives up all the business in Jiangsu and Zhejiang." Zheng Haomiao said.

"Fifth brother, don't you know your father's temper? I couldn't speak at all, I had to obey orders. ”

"What then? Who can persuade my father? Zheng Hao was in a hurry.

He really doesn't want to go back to his hometown in Fuzhou, sell stolen goods in Jiangsu and Zhejiang, he has a lot of money in his hands, and he lives a heavenly life, with delicious and beautiful women and silk satin, how can he let go of such a day.

"Alas, no one can persuade you, let it be fate." After Zheng Haoguang finished speaking, he got up and went back to his room.

Moreover, after the meal, he returned to Pomegranate's room, and the female guard still followed him like a shadow, and he told Pomegranate with a wry smile: "I am now under semi-house arrest. ”

Sisi accompanied Pomegranate to eat in the house, Pomegranate has returned to normal, she is a strong woman, and her psychological endurance is stronger than that, but she was only crushed by a sudden blow yesterday. is as strong psychologically as Chen Musa, but she is still out of control, not to mention that she is just a girl who has just turned seventeen.

"Did you have a good dinner?"

"Don't worry, it's good to eat."

"What did you eat?"

"Half a roast suckling pig, Grandpa Guo forced me to eat it."

"That means if I don't force you, you won't eat."

Besides, with a wry smile, where did he still have an appetite at this time, he couldn't help but want to make a move, but he was forcibly held down by Wei Guogong and the teacher, and his personal freedom was gone, this feeling of being controlled by others was too bad.

He also knew that once he really made a move, he would have to flee the mainland, which might mean separation from the pomegranate, which was what he was most entangled with, otherwise, Wei Guogong and the teacher might not be able to hold him down.

He didn't know how powerful the organization behind him was, but it should be easy for them to save Xiaojun from the Ancestor Protector Sect and the Kongkong Dao Sect, and destroy the Zheng family and a team of cavalry guards.

"You have to be good, no matter what the result is, you have to be good, you have to promise me." The pomegranate sat opposite each other, knee to knee.

Besides, he smirked, reached out and gently pressed Pomegranate's knee, and nodded again, he really looked like a mature man.

The pomegranate's long eyelashes flickered, and the beautiful black eyes were even more tender.